BUDYONNOVSK, Russia, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Lukoil,
Russia's No.2 oil producer, reacted "calmly" to an agreement
reached between some of the world's top oil nations in Doha as
the firm planned to stabilise its oil output this year in any
case, its Chief Executive Vagit Alekperov said.

Top oil exporters Russia and Saudi Arabia agreed on Tuesday
to freeze output but said the deal was contingent on other
producers joining in - a major sticking point with Iran absent
from the talks and determined to raise production.

Lukoil was was pumping oil at around 1.7 million barrels per
day (bpd) in Russia last month and facing a decline.

"The company has planned to stabilise production anyway. So
we reacted to this news calmly," Alekperov, the largest private
shareholder in the firm, told reporters in Russia's southern
city of Budyonnovsk.

Russia was pumping at an average of 10.88 million bpd last
month, a fresh post-Soviet high, preliminary data showed earlier
this month.
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